Tim Spiers

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2,293 appearances 13 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

And it sort of tapped into that sort of computer game, you know, yeah, champ manager around that time, you just b buy a team.

It was brilliant.

So, you know, the sort of bitterness maybe comes later, but I was I'm

I remember being really excited about what what they could achieve at that time.

Uh no, not with those sort of two sort of combustible uh personalities.

Um the di the Dean quote has to is is I don't know that can be beaten by the way, in terms of quotes background.

Just the imagery of like Russian tanks on a lawn and fifty pounds it's just firing, yeah.

Did he think of that on the hoof or did he uh did he properly as like

Uh, hard to imagine anything anything different.

Yeah, they were they were you know, obviously they finished fourth third year that Brandwitz takes over, but they were pretty far behind Man United and Arsenal at that time.

And if they were in sort of financial trouble perhaps and have to sell some of their players.

You know, the sort of crown jewels you're looking at.

I mean, Terry and Lampard would obviously be the main one.

Terry was just coming through, Lampard sort of blossoming at that time, would they have both had to move on?

You look at players like Galas and Hassabank and Good Johnson.

So they may have had to rely on their young players a little bit more.

Players like Carlton Cole, Robert Hooth, uh Winston Bogard might have had to play a bit of football.

Do you remember he was sort

Uh yeah,

Yes.

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